The property is underlain by probable Lower Paleozoic Lardeau Group phyllites and limestones. A probable Mid-Jurassic pluton of monzonite to granodiorite intrudes the metasediments, developing a mineralized skarn.
Skarn mineralization consists of garnets, pyroxene, calcite, magnetite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, molybdenite and scheelite. Mineralization also occurs in pods or fault gouge zones cutting and paralleling the limestone bedding. A fault parallels Downie Creek.
Soil geochemistry performed over the property has outlined anomalous zones of tungsten, copper, lead, silver, and molybdenum (Assessment Report 8591).
In 2004, Orphan Boy located a trench along a trail that was made to provide a drilling platform from which to intersect the Sorcerer skarn exposed in the neighboring cliffs near the bottom of Downie Creek canyon. The trench, in very shallow overburden, exposed a granite-quartz monzonite contact with limestone along with abundant massive skarn alteration and bands of massive and semi-massive sulphides, sometimes cored by quartz veins. Skarn alteration consisted principally of erratically disseminated dark brown to maroon garnet along with minor actinolite, pyrite and magnetite.
The maximum values obtained were 0.067 per cent copper and 0.023 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 27696). The Sorcerer Skarn trench was undercut by the last three drill holes of the 2004 program; RN04-20, 22 and 22. Based on the results from those holes, this area remains a drill target, especially for tungsten. One drill hole testing the zone in 2004 yielded 0.57 per cent tungsten over 4.11 metres near 103 metres depth (Assessment Report 27696).
Noranda Exploration Co. conducted the first work on the Rain Property in the late 1970s to evaluate a copper-tungsten showing immediately north of the Sorcerer-Downie creek confluence. The program staged geological mapping, soil geochemistry and VLF-EM geophysics over a field grid.
1989, Bethlehem Resources Corp. staked the Rain property and reviewed the area around Murder Creek in order to establish that the stratigraphic section was virtually identical to that of the Goldstream Mine.
In a follow up program OreQuest Consultants Ltd., in 1991, conducted soil geochemical, magnetometer, and VLF-EM surveys along with geological mapping and prospecting and outlined two areas for further work, one north of Murder Creek and the second along Murder Creek itself. The first of the two areas was subject to a five-hole diamond drilling program by OreQuest Consultants Ltd. in 1992. The 904.47 meter drill program confirmed the similarity of the stratigraphy with that at Goldstream by intersecting multiple garnet-massive sulfide zones up to half a meter thick – all without economic mineralization. In 1994, limited geological mapping and soil geochemical surveying was conducted by OreQuest Consultants Ltd.
Imperial Metals Corporation optioned the Rain property from Keystone Resources in 1995. A geological mapping, soil geochemical and VLF-EM program was conducted by Select Ventures Inc. in 1995 and they were reported to have drilled 3 holes totaling 900 metres in 1996 .
OreQuest Consultants Ltd. returned in 1997 with a three-hole diamond drilling program amounting to 866.46 meters. The drilling was successful in extending the strike length of some of the previously intersected garnet zones however no massive sulfide intersections were obtained.
Orphan Boy Resources staked the original Rain 100 and Rain 200 claims in January 2004 and followed up with prospecting, trenching and diamond drilling along with grid cutting, and on parts of it, soil geochemical and magnetometer surveys. Drilling consisted of 14 NQ diamond-drill holes with a combined length of 2444.1 metres. Only limited work was completed on the large group of properties held by Orphan Boy in 2005. Drilling was conducted by Orphan Boy on the Alfie polymetallic vein target, consisting of about 200 metres in 1 diamond-drill hole.
